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Bovary, Charles

Bovary, Charles

“dull-witted husband reeked of medicine and drugs.” [Fr. Lit.: Madame Bovary]
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In Madame Bovary, Charles is instructed between un bapteme et un enterrement (8), between, in the Christian calendar, the beginning and end of life.
In Madame Bovary, Charles and Homais remain oblivious to the full extent of Emma's scandalous lifestyle.
Heloise Bovary, Charles Bovary's first wife, a woman much older than he, who had deceived the Bovarys as to the amount of property she owned.
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